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American Heart Association Adds Depression as Fourth Major Risk Factor for Heart Disease
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Essentials: Psychedelics & Neurostimulation for Brain Rewiring | Dr. Nolan Williams
"Recently, the American Heart Association added depression as the fourth major risk factor for coronary artery disease, right? So alongside the risk factors that we know: hypertension, high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, high cholesterol, and diabetes, you know, high blood sugar. Those three have been on the list for a long time, and depression ended up, you know, being added to the list as the fourth one."
Dr. Williams reported that depression now joins hypertension, high cholesterol, and diabetes as a recognized major cardiovascular risk factor. His lab's research demonstrates direct brain-heart connections, showing that transcranial magnetic stimulation over mood regulatory regions can decelerate heart rate, revealing measurable physiological links between depression and cardiac outcomes.
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